Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Paul Flynn receives 1984...

It appears to be a fresh stunt by those who want to bring smoking back into pubs. A note with the book vainly tries to draw a comparison between a very popular health reform with the terror methods of Big Brother. It's irksome for the inveterate smoker to use designated areas but it is hardly torture by rats.

The point fails because of gross exaggeration. I have not noticed any political party raising the battle cry, 'Put the stink back into pubs.'

Do these people ever leave their own obsessions alone? These self-regarding sods keep fiddling with their own personal hobby-horses, like a pubescent boy who's discovered that stroking his "winky" feels nice.

15 comments:

To be fair to our MPs people were encouraged to add their own personal messages to 1984, and you can't expect MPs to understand this. After all, the idea of thinking for yourself as oppossed to just listening to the whips is anathema for many of them.

This guy seems to have a good voting record - for a Labour MP! Which isn't saying much I'll admit.

Oh the bliss, the joy, the schaudenfraud. By damn my sides hurt from laughing so much.

Flynn the liar, the libel case loser - see wikipedia page - is just so out of his depth.

50 comments and counting.

I have hated this tedious two faced duplicitous little shit from the time when he refused to meet workers at Lloyds Tsb threatened with outsourcing.

Sorry I meant of course to say he was just never fucking available, although strangely enough a few months later was happy to give Ltsb lots of free praise on his webshyte, even posing for piccies with managers.

He posted about smoking a couple of months ago. He insulted those who disagreed with his viewpoint and partially edited their posts and, bizarrely, his own some time after he'd posted them. Two people agreed with him. He failed to apply his own rules of blog etiquette to them and ended by inviting them to tea at Westminster!!

He is offensive, snide, tricksy - and, oh joy, as stated above, was sued for libel.

I myself have never smoked a cigarette in my life nor have I taken any illegal drugs. Hell, I barely ever drink, eat minimal red meat and am careful about cholesterol and yet I still think the growth of a surveillance-centred state with its moralising we-know-best nose in everyone's business is a bad thing.

Where do I fit into Fuckface Flynn's equation? I hope he dies of AIDS.

"from the time when he refused to meet workers at Lloyds Tsb threatened with outsourcing."

What, a politico who doesn't buy into the bullshitty "we should hire inept idiots in the UK instead of Indians who do a better job for 10% of the money" nonsense? Good; anyone who disapproves of his actions there should be sacked and horsewhipped.

More generally, the man clearly has an enormous bee-bonnet about smoking, which is arse - but most of his votes are substantially better from a libertarian POV than parliament in general, not just the Labour party...

What? Has he been mixing his drinks or something? What the fuck does the 1984 campaign have to do with smoking in pubs? This is the most piss poor attempt to discredit a rival opinion that I've ever seen and he should be hung, drawn and quartered for not coming up with something more convincing. If his arguments against those who stand up to him are as crappy as this I think we can safely assume he'll be receiving his P45 at the next election.

What is meant by "voted strongly"etc,as i understand it ,these fat treasonous bastards simply walk through a choice of two doors to register thier vote on any subject brought before them,subject to the permission of the eussr of course,do they then stride or dally?

The reaction of Kerry McCarthy was that of a total cunt. Quite how she has gone into politics when she cannot even navigate her way out of an issue like freedom of speach speaks volumes about hte state of the House.